Meta-Analysis of Security Studies; (Case Study: Scientific Research in the Field of Security from 1385 to 1394)

Due to the complexity and shifting power relationships, some definitions in international affairs and interests of the states have changed, and new aspects of security have been proposed by the researchers. Today, the area of security includes a wide range of components, so that political and social scientists, using publications in the field, are trying to explore this concept and find the best option to maintain security. Therefore, the most crucial needs and interests of national security or human is considered by many scholars. One of the scientific methods for understanding research conducted in the area of security, is meta-analysis. This meta- analysis of security studies seeks to scrutinize the scientific articles in the field of security. The researchers try to address this central question; what are the strengths and weaknesses of Iranian Scientific Research from 2015-2004? To answer this question quantitative-qualitative methodology was employed and data collection through library-documents and taking notes from articles was used. This research is an applied one. The findings showed that, in the area of security research, although in more recent studies researchers have considered new perspectives of security measures, but some weaknesses are still clear in these studies. Further the results showed that qualitative and library research are more dominant, and majority of them only had a national view toward security issues.